New $25,000 prize for Catholic literary arts

The Washington Post

By Ron Charles October 13

What is a Catholic book? Judges for the new Hunt Prize will face complex issues of definition and quality as they work to determine a winner. 

When God said, “Be fruitful and multiply,” He could have been talking about literary prizes. Lo and behold, into this crowded universe, just days before the Man Booker and the National Book Awards and the first Kirkus Prizes are announced, comes word of the creation of another new award: the George W. Hunt Prize. 
This $25,000 contest, sponsored by America magazine and Saint Thomas More Chapel at Yale Univeristy, seeks to recognize the finest literary work of Roman Catholic intelligence and imagination.
The prize is being funded by Fay Vincent, the lawyer and former Major League Baseball commissioner.
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